The gentlemans amendment comes from the heart. He deals with the question of whether or not the United States can support the number of people who are here illegally as well as those who enter legally. I will have to say that the problem. if there is one. and there is a question as to whether there is a problem even with the documented workers and the undocumented aliens. if there is a problem it is with them. not with legal immigrants. If there is a problem. it is not with the family reunification provisions. the immediate family category. it is with the people who enter illegally. Now. the people who enter without paper are not brigands or highway robbers or pillagers. If there is a problem. it is the problem of illegal entry of undocumented workers in our midst. not the problem of legal entries in the family categories. legal entries in the system of labor preferences. So I would say that this House really should defeat this amendment in its wisdom. and it is going to take a lot of wisdom. it is going to take a lot of courage. take a lot of fortitude to deal with problems as it has with the employer sanctions. to deal with the question of legalization. Let the House resolve to overcome the temptation to deal with something which is sort of near at hand. which is the legal entry. in order to really. by sort of another avenue. try to reach the undocumented entry. because I think that is the problem. We think employer sanctions will help solve some of that problem. We think legalization is an appropriate and moral and practical way to deal with those who are here.
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